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There's so much good stuff here. I need to stop hanging out other places.

I was doing a webbernet search trying to find descriptions of the NAWAC wood chimps because the NAWAC spokespersons have presumably been told not to speak fast and loose in public anymore because they got in a lot of hot water with the bosses last time they did, and instead of finding their descriptions of 8 foot tall American chimps, I found this nugget of wisdom. Reading it, my tension melted away. Thank you for reality!!!

Thank you for the kind words Tontar. I'm not always right, but I'm always thoughtful and sincere.

Originally Posted by The Shrike

Harry has delivered some epic rants through the years, and that's a great one.

And thank you too The. I've mentioned before (perhaps just to myself, not sure) there's any number of posters here who I never fail to read, and for valid reasons The Shrike has been at the top of that list since the beginning (Saskeptic @ BFF¹).

As for some NEW news, there's this. It's not the only time things like this have occurred either. The public's utter fascination with taking pictures with their (phone) cameras is completely out of control. It's so bad that people post tens of thousands of pics A DAY of just their food. THEIR ******* FOOD! And if I never hear the word "selfie" again I'll be truly fine too.

YET, therein lies ChrisBFRPKY Bigfooters greatest chance for vindication. If everyone's taking pictures of everything everywhere all the time, and they are, shouldn't Bigfoot be showing up somewhere in all those pics, even if just by chance? Potentially the greatest single subject a phone camera could hope to capture, yet NOPE not even ONE CLEAR PIC. They're literally killing mountain goats with a mindless "photo op" curiosity, yet apparently totally missing the many Bigfoot photo ops passing them by as they're chasing that goat.

Taken at a habituation site. The guy who took the photo was taken to a regular "special meeting place". Forget "Finding Bigfoot"... these people are Chillin' With Bigfoot.

__________________"Bigfoot does not leave hair samples for us unless he is in our dimension to begin with, obviously. Once the hair is separated from the electrical field associated with the Bigfoot's free quanta energy loops, the hair becomes independant and remains in it's most stable dimension, which presumably is our dimension."(Historian)

The right eye of the subject might actually be two eyes: one sad one looking down and off to the left and one sassy one with clumped mascara on long eyelashes looking right at the camera. The gills, goiter, and John Merrick-like bulging forehead on that thing also make it a bit dubious, but hey, who am I to judge? All I know is that if I encountered such a Guernica-escaped beast eyesballsing me from the bushes, I'd start taking random moonlit photos with my camera, too!

Really? Is that put forward by the photographer in a post? He alludes to having taken the photo whilst in the brush, fumbling with the camera, in one post. Sounds odd.

__________________"Bigfoot does not leave hair samples for us unless he is in our dimension to begin with, obviously. Once the hair is separated from the electrical field associated with the Bigfoot's free quanta energy loops, the hair becomes independant and remains in it's most stable dimension, which presumably is our dimension."(Historian)

__________________"Bigfoot does not leave hair samples for us unless he is in our dimension to begin with, obviously. Once the hair is separated from the electrical field associated with the Bigfoot's free quanta energy loops, the hair becomes independant and remains in it's most stable dimension, which presumably is our dimension."(Historian)

__________________"I dont call that evolution, I call that the survival of the fittest." - Bulletmaker
"I thought skeptics would usually point towards a hoax rather than a group being duped." - makaya325
Kit is not a skeptic. He is a former Bigfoot believer that changed his position to that of non believer.- Crowlogic

We know that Bigfoot sometimes uses tools like when they steal a screwdriver and use it to open a can of beans. I think that Bigfoot could use a saw.

It would be really amazing if Bigfoot was confirmed to exist by someone who presented science with a Bigfoot body that had been sawn in half by a Bigfoot. "I saw a Bigfoot that saw a Bigfoot and then the Bigfoot sawed the Bigfoot that it saw."

That would be awesome.

__________________Bigfoot believers and Bigfoot skeptics are both plumb crazy. Each spends more than one minute per year thinking about Bigfoot.

I think if a Bigfoot could use a saw, it could use the camera feature on an Iphone.

What if the Bigfoot filmed a Bigfoot with an Iphone?

Then who discovered Bigfoot? Bigfoot?

Or the person who found the phone the Bigfoot used, smashed on the rocks?

(Actually this would make a good Bigfoot short story)

__________________"I dont call that evolution, I call that the survival of the fittest." - Bulletmaker
"I thought skeptics would usually point towards a hoax rather than a group being duped." - makaya325
Kit is not a skeptic. He is a former Bigfoot believer that changed his position to that of non believer.- Crowlogic

They will steal a screwdriver to open a can of beans, but they have to SMASH trailcams to remove the data card.

They will steal a screwdriver to open a can of beans, but they won't steal a shovel to bury their dead Bigfoots so no one finds a body.

Other things Bigfoots NEVER do?
* Have a heart attack near a public place
* Dart in front of a Petrbilt on one of the highways they cross
* Fracture an ankle while running FULL SPEED, barefoot, through the woods to the side of the road to keep up with a person on moped.
* Fall through the ice on a river or lake and freeze to death
* Miscalculate a leap from tree to tree
* Get predated by a Grizzly Bear.
* Leave DNA in water DNA testing samples
* Leave hair in hair traps
* Get shot stealing livestock
* Get caught on a game cam
* Get surrounded by a group of hunting dogs
* Survive 10,000 years without ever being successfully hunted by Native Americans
* Menace trailer parks without getting caught on camera by a COPS film crew in the area.

__________________"I dont call that evolution, I call that the survival of the fittest." - Bulletmaker
"I thought skeptics would usually point towards a hoax rather than a group being duped." - makaya325
Kit is not a skeptic. He is a former Bigfoot believer that changed his position to that of non believer.- Crowlogic

If two male Bigfoots get into a dominance battle over a female, and one of the males dies in the tussle, is the victorious Bigfoot obligated to bury the body of the loser? The females could be long gone by the time he digs a 8'x6'x6' hole in the ground and covers it up.

__________________"I dont call that evolution, I call that the survival of the fittest." - Bulletmaker
"I thought skeptics would usually point towards a hoax rather than a group being duped." - makaya325
Kit is not a skeptic. He is a former Bigfoot believer that changed his position to that of non believer.- Crowlogic

... is the victorious Bigfoot obligated to bury the body of the loser?

Burying their dead would be the #1 way to ensure that we'd uncover remains eventually. I continue to be surprised by how this illogical trope lives on in bigfootery.

ETA Meldrum: Shrike is wrong because everyone knows that bigfoots only live in the "Pacific Northwest" and when they bury their dead there the bodies are immediately consumed by the soil that is technically lava.

FYI this is a video of a researcher driving around town looking for 'blue bags' that the Bigfoot leave around town.

Very funny.

__________________"I dont call that evolution, I call that the survival of the fittest." - Bulletmaker
"I thought skeptics would usually point towards a hoax rather than a group being duped." - makaya325
Kit is not a skeptic. He is a former Bigfoot believer that changed his position to that of non believer.- Crowlogic

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